This week’s postcard comes from Rachel Bacon, our rugby and singing loving first soprano.
If you’ve been watching the women’s rugby world cup over the last few weeks, you’ll have seen some amazing rugby, record breaking crowds and a masterclass in plaiting hair. You’re probably thinking ‘What on earth has this got to do with NCS?’, but bear with me.
If you follow any sort of sport, you’ll hear constantly about the importance of teamwork and respect for your fellow players. Aside from the fitness benefits of playing sports, there’s a lot talked about the benefits of teamwork to everyday life. But if you sing in a choir or play in an orchestra – indeed if you take part in any sort of group music making – you will also know all about teamwork!
In any musical ensemble it’s critical to a performance that all the different parts work together. You listen to the musical line, watch your fellow musicians, and (probably should have mentioned this before) work with the conductor to produce the performance that you’ve planned as a team.
Perhaps the difference is that whilst a sports team plays to win, and inevitably someone will lose (sorry, Canada), with music we’re all winners. No one has to go home disappointed. All the hard work leading up to a performance allows every participant, and hopefully the audience as well, to go home on a high.
That’s something a sports team can’t match.
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